KIPP: Knowledge Is Power Program

While reading articles on one of Bill Gate’s websites, I learned of the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP). KIPP is an open lottery program gives students from low-income communities leaning experiences that allow them to transform themselves into high-achieving students with goals of higher education. KIPP is determined to teach in a kid-friendly manner which includes teaching students through music and chants the same way young people memorize popular songs.

I found most of these tidbits of information on KIPP’s website :

Over 85% of KIPP alumni have gone to college. (This is compared to 20% of low-income students graduating college nationwide.)

Fifteen years ago, KIPP started with 2 schools and 120 kippsters and now there are more than 82 schools and over 20,000 kippsters.

Nationwide 94% of kippsters outperform the district average in language arts; 100% of kippsters outperform the district in math.

33 of kippsters who have graduated from college have come back to work at KIPP.

Click here to watch KIPP in action, or click here to learn how KIPP started by two DEDICATED teachers.